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FOCUS: Neil Young Quits Facebook Because of Its "Obvious Commitments" to Right-Wing Politics
Wren Graves, Consequence of Sound Graves writes: "Earlier this week, Neil Young announced that he would be quitting Facebook because of its 'obvious commitments' to conservative politics." It was Facebook's sponsorship of the Federalist Society -- a key booster of Brett Kavanaugh -- that convinced Young to quit
hile companies like Twitter and Snapchat insist on fact-checking political advertising, Facebook has bent itself into pretzels preserving the rights of politicians to lie. It’s philosophically indefensible, unless your philosophy involves building yourself a Scrooge McDuck-style money pit. Well, one man has had enough. Earlier this week, Neil Young announced that he would be quitting Facebook because of its “obvious commitments” to conservative politics.
Young has been mulling this decision since at least last month. In a post on the Neil Young Archives, he discussed his conflicted feelings: “FB gives you more than you want and it’s not all good. A lot of it is very bad misinformation about political campaigns and ads that are outright falsehoods. These are fine with Facebook, but not with NYA. If we were to leave Facebook with our social outreach we would lose communications with millions. If we continue to be on Facebook, we are conflicted about who we are.”
The decision comes only one month after Young released his new album Colorado, as well as an accompanying documentary about the making-of, Mountaintop. The Canadian legend has run afoul of US politics before; two weeks ago Young’s citizenship application was delayed because of his marijuana use, under a new rule put in place by Trump’s Attorney General.
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